Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SLEAVED
Adjective
sleaved (not comparable)
Raw; not spun or wrought.
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Source: Wiktionary
Sleaved, a.
Definition: Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
SLEAVE
Sleave, n. Etym: [Cf. Dan. slöif, a knot loop, Sw. slejf, G. schleife a knot, silding knot, and E. slip, v.i.] (a) The knotted or entangled part of silk or thread. (b) Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. Shak.
Sleave, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sleaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Sleaving.]
Definition: To separate, as threads; to divide, as a collection of threads; to sley; -- a weaver's term.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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